Anatoly Lapshin

PunBB leading developer

More than 4 years of professional web-development

Since December 2007, I have been writing extensions for PunBB and managing the extension development by other local developers, as well as administrating the PunBB site. In June 2008, I got to quarterback the PunBB development team and started to work on the forum core. I'm trying to be at the cutting edge of IT and keep up with all the up-to-date web-technologies.

I like spending my spare time with my little daughter Martha. I also enjoy playing tabletop role-playing games (D&D and the like) and Munchkin, or singing songs and playing the guitar in the close circle of friends. In the long winter evenings, I often sit in the comfort of my home watching anime by Hayao Miyazaki, movies by Luc Besson, Quentin Tarantino and others, or series like “M*A*S*H”, “Heroes”, “Lost Room” and “Eureka”. I’ve watched all Futurama series as well! )) Whatching “House M.D.” now. I also have very motley tastes for music: songs of Flёur, instrumentals of Estradasphere and Yann Tiersen. Also I like Russian rock, as well as Nightwish and Lacrimosa. As for my reading preferences, I often pick up a sci-fi book by Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert or Ray Bradbury from my shelves. From time to time, when I feel I need to break from the routine, I set off hitch-hiking on the spur of the moment. That lets me refresh my world perception and reveal the hidden sides of life and people around me. ;-)

Slava Kasyanov

PunBB extensions and core developer

Student of Dubna University of Nature, Society and Man

I study at the department of application informatics now and I am very fond of what I’m doing. Before working for PunBB, I was a developer of an online GIS and gained quite a lot of experience in PHP, Ajax, CSS and HTML technologies. I was happy to be involved in that project and to realize that pure IT knowledge can be of practical use to many people.

I’ve been part of PunBB team since April 2008. Here, I am engaged in code enhancement and extension development of the forum. I find it interesting to improve the forum making it better in comparison to other forums in terms of speed and lightweightness (at the very least ;) ).

Roman Parpalak

PunBB extensions and core developer

Student of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

I have been fond of programming for a long time. When I entered MIPT 4 years ago, I didn’t even guess that in a year I will take a keen interest in web-development. I joined the PunBB team in March 2008 and have been writing extensions and working on the forum core since then. I like challenging tasks that require non-standard thinking and I’m always ready to deal with them however time-consuming they turn out to be. However, such tasks don’t turn up very often, so I have to settle for mundane ones. ;) The thing that comforts me is that this routine will hopefully help me become a web-professional. =)

I try to spend my spare time on reading (Erle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Hailey) or watching films. I even have a movie-blog where I write impressions of movies I have seen. Unfortunately, I have less and less spare time day by day.

Mikhail Zadorozhniy

PunBB extensions developer and system administrator

Student of Dubna University of Nature, Society and Man, 2 years of professional web-development

Since March 2008, I have been writing extensions for PunBB, administrating the PunBB site and working with users’ bug reports in the forum. Being an IT specialist by profession, I really like this PunBB-related job because it gives me outlets for my vocational activity. However, I didn’t stop at that and decided to try my hand at C++/ C#, which resulted in a project of my own called Easy Web Conference (EWC).

My spare time? I enjoy many things. Playing volleyball, billiards and bowling, go clubbing from time to time or playing Dozor Night Game spice up my routine life. Sometimes I prefer to get away from it all and simply go fishing in gloomy and rainy weather. I really like stormy weather, with showers and lightnings. It’s a perfect time to stay indoors watching my favorite movies (such as Forrest Gump, The Green Mile), series (like Star Gates or South Park) and listening to music (Trance, d’n’b, House and Bob Marley). Overall, I’m a good guy who likes hearth and home. I love my family, my girlfriend and my computer. )

And I don’t like waking up from the rasp of street cleaners. ))

Mikhail Kovalyshev

PunBB extensions developer

Student of Dubna University of Nature, Society and Man

I’ve been related to IT ever since I went to Energy College, where I received my secondary education with an IT specialization. After finishing college, I realized that I didn’t want to give up the profession, so here I am, being part of PunBB team. Since September 2007, I have been writing extensions for PunBB.

My hobby is also connected with IT: I enjoy 3D games programming. Now I am studying Bullet 2.49 and Irrlicht 1.3.1to enrich my programming experience.

However, I am not totally immersed in IT world. Another hobby of mine is ballroom dancing, which I simply adore. =)